The Prime Minister’s announcement yesterday that he has ordered a review of the country’s traffic fines regime, particularly as regards drink driving, comes not a day too soon.  In...

The International Organisation for Migration yesterday said that the number of deaths at sea this year is soon to hit 3,000, making it the third straight year that a new record has been established...

The latest flash in the pan to take the world by storm is Pokemon Go. The game is a spinoff of one of Nintendo’s most popular video games – Pokemon – which spawned cartoons, fluffy...

Should a terminally-ill patient be allowed euthanasia or assisted suicide? Should such a patient be given the faculty to pre-inform medical teams of when to pull the plug on his or her life support...

The pigeon culling exercise in Balzan last week raised controversy  given that it literally involved men walking around with air rifles taking pot shots at the birds. The first thing that...

It is almost August and that time of the year, in journalistic jargon, is referred to as silly season. As people laze around on the beach and companies go on shutdown, life turns into a bit of a...

In today’s issue, an interview with the head of the Psychiatric Nurses Association tackles the issue of the stigma which is still attached to mental illness. Pierre Galea told this...

The national airline has rarely been clear of turbulence over recent years, from its near bankruptcy and the €52 million bailout it had under the previous government to the current...

When we think of world war, we tend to think of WWI and WWII, when whole continents waged pitched battle warfare against each other. That may be what history has taught us. During the Cold War,...

Each and every democracy has its own way of making politics and the differences are never more stark than when one watches parliamentary sessions. Ever since Malta’s House of...